On August 17, 2007 TorrentFreak reported that Comcast had begun throttling its upload bandwidth, specifically against BitTorrent users. This made seeding, which is an essential part of the BitTorrent protocol, effectively impossible.[25] It was later determined that Comcast was using Sandvine products which implement network traffic shaping and policing, and include support for both blocking new and forcefully terminating established network connections. Comcast has denied these claims whenever they have been asked to comment. A guide, for customer service representatives when asked about Comcast's BitTorrent throttling, was leaked to The Consumerist on October 26, 2007.[26]

In October 2008 through to March 2011 TorrentFreak ran short lived video news service titled 'torrentfreak.tv directed by Andrej Preston, founder of torrent site Suprnova made available for streaming and download on Mininova.[27][28]

On August 21, 2013, Comcast threatened TorrentFreak for writing about publicly available court documents.[29][30] The underlying document links a Comcast subscriber with the Prenda Law firm.[31] The court case where the document was filed was a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by AF Holdings for alleged infringement of an adult movie.[32][33]